Looks a little dissipated.
Posted on 04/13/2012 4:32:27 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Neil Heywood death: Bo Xilai's son 'escorted from his home near Harvard university by US officials'
The son of the Chinese power couple embroiled in the scandal over British businessman Neil Heywood's death was escorted from his home by US officials, as experts said he could obtain asylum in America.
By Raf Sanchez, Boston, Jon Swaine in Washington and Matthew Holehouse
10:00PM BST 13 Apr 2012
Bo Guagua, the Harrow- and Oxford-educated son of Bo Xilai, was slipped out of his luxury flat near Harvard University late on Thursday night, in a pre-arranged pick-up by law-enforcement officers.
Wearing a dark jacket and pulling a roller suitcase, the 24-year-old, who was preparing for final exams of a postgraduate degree, was driven away in a dark SUV by a besuited officer wearing a badge.
"He did not look frightened, but he seemed anxious to go with them," a source told The Daily Telegraph. "He had clearly been expecting it". Mr Bo was accompanied by a female friend.
Speculation was mounting that the younger Mr Bo may have sought protection from American authorities. The FBI's Boston office declined to say if the man was one of their agents. It is understood that he was not from the local or university police departments
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Given the secretive and sordid nature of Chinese politics, all we can say for sure is that we have no idea what is really going on.
Watch Obama curry favor with his commie pals by deporting this kid right back to China to see a firing squad.
more intrigue.....
He was picked up at about 10pm on Thursday, after his female friend told the doorman to expect a visitor and gave him an electronic key fob to let him into the underground car park. She is believed to have left later in Mr Bo's Porsche, after collecting more luggage.
The guy gives his dad a giant PR headache. If I were Bo, I would have enrolled him at the Shiaolin Temple to learn Kungfu for next 20 years. Of course, he is tame compared with his mom, a scheming woman of phenomenal vanity. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Bo represented a fraction in China that abhors the corruption brought forth by free market reforms. Bo did not live like he preached but he is popular in the western core China and many in the military. The military in general became a merit based institution who are taught how the ideal Chinese government should function. Many who retired ended up with a second career in government. Many were shocked by the widespread corruption and abuse by civilian officials towards the people. Some of the riots by local villagers against abusive local gov officials were organized by retired army officers and soldiers. These soldiers and former soldiers as well as many in rural China are sympathetic of Bo position against corruption and desire to go back to the clean and simpler life under the Maoist era. Free markets had made the 1/10th of China richer but the remaining ones without connections and powerful family members in gov are left out of the Chinese economic miracle. Bo was able to tap into this discontent in the rural China and members of the military. I think the rumors of a military coup after Bo was taken down scared the leaders in China who represent the connected class and new business class. IMHO Bo is no reformer. He lives like a prince and has his own business dealings. He is more like a typical third world dictator. If not in power he is a reformer and political bomb thrower against the thieves in power. Once in power he will become the thief. Someone else would come along and play the role of reformer and protest against him. The cycle will simply go on and on.
That is eminently possible. The guy has a better luck with countries like Saudi Arabia.
Bo’s crackdown on corruption (tm) included kidnapping and torturing and killing businessmen and shaking them down. Some may have been corrupt of course and some may not have been. From what I’ve read of Bo, he was no better at all than those he supposedly was taking down.
It certainly will be interesting to see what happens.
Once on the top, though, Bo Xilai could become an emperor with limitless sense of grandeur, his wife,a typical ruthless empress of boundless vanity, and his son would inherit all of those traits. Boxun, quoting its source, reported that Bo started to see himself the 3rd great man in Chinese history after Qinshihuang and Mao Zedong. As you said, another familiar cycle in Chinese history.
Great analysis..!
One third-world dictator is often preferred over a thousand oligarchs. A single man is limited in how many mistresses he needs to support, how many palaces he can live in, and how many Mercedes limos he can be driven around in.
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